Collect all the cheese wheels, sweet rolls, and long taffy treats in the game. Kill lots of dragons, wait in the shop to sell the bones and scales, buy Breezehome and fill it with a ridiculous amount of one item. Challenge three giants: who can catch you and send you into Oblivion first? Completely ignore the entire main quest line and go stop the war, assassinate some people dark brotherhood-style, giggle with Cicero, join the Companions, become a member of all the guilds and complete their quest lines completely, and after all the other quests you can find have been done, then you can go back and do the main quest. Take fifty million screenshots and post them all on /r/skyrim titled "This reminds me why I love this game" or "I was passing _____ when I found this place" or "this is the most beautiful place I've ever found." Make up a challenge for yourself, post it on Reddit for possible karma, draw a Skyrim comic, find at least ten shouts before you even get a soul for Fus, kill all the bandits in the world, make a backstory, create a personal hatred for all members of one species in Skyrim or maybe a gender or even just a town and kill them on sight, find wanderers and kill them all, discover all the followers, do compassionate things like hearing your first dragon kill cry "Dovahkiin! No!" and put a bunch of jewels and healing potions in their inventory to try and make up for it, find a stray dog and take him on as your next companion, ride a horse up a vertical mountain, stand on the peak of the Throat of the World and Whirlwind Sprint off the side, collect all the books you can find, be a race you hate the most, take the side you hate on the civil war and help them, buy all the houses and become the Thane in all the cities, kill Braith, collect all the wine you can and in the middle of a tough battle drink it all down and announce "Screw this, my life is a mess, I don't know all the shouts, I can't get any karma on Reddit, I know less than anyone else about Skyrim, I'm just gonna drink until the dragon kills me." Go through a permadeath game or go through a game where you can't drink any potions to heal, help magika, or fill stamina, put all your perks into one category, put all your perks in useless categories, secretly kill people, find all you can about Nazeem and Heimskr then decide who you hate more and loot their home or business or poison them secretly, have your follower carry nothing but dragon bones and dragon scales and kill enough of the creatures to have them unable to carry anything because of the number of scales and bones, steal from the Thieves' guild, shoot an arrow at someone and sneak until they forget you exist, try being a vampire, try being a werewolf, complete all the daedric quests, use only one-handed weapons and always keep the Wabbajack in one hand, learn to use a skill you never bothered with before, fist-bump Ulfric Stormcloak in the face, fist-bump General Tullius in the face, kill the damn Thalmor, etc., etc.

i had 3 frost trolls attack me at once. luckily i had just smithed my full set of dragon armor, took chillrend and my glass war axe and went to town! only used fire on one of them. when you get to a higher level, trolls really aren't too hard anymore. but as soon as i killed them, literally seconds after, an elder dragon attacks. and what do you know, lydia is a mile behind me because she is picky on where she'll walk. so im sitting there fighting for my life against a god-dragon, using my best arrows and different bows to get the damage right, then when it lands i take the fight to it with Dragonbane, then begin a killing animation and stab it through the head. most satisfying dragon kill i have ever had. then it decides to glitch through the snow into the ground, robbing me of my spoils. then just out of spite the soul comes up to me through the ground, and lydia runs up to me with this "what did i miss?" look on her face. screw you lydia. screw you

Level up only in stamina and do anything possible for the highest carrying weight you can get, then, discard all of your items except for your cabbages. Collect as many cabbages as possible, reach the peak of the Throat of the world, then go in your inventory and drop the cabbages one by one without leaving your inventory. When you have exhausted you supply of about 50,000 cabbages, exit the inventory and watch as Skyrim gets completely destroyed by cabbages and take your place on the throne as The High Cabbage King of Skyrim!

When you go to the abandoned shack at he start of the DB quest, take the execution bag off of whoever you decided to kill. Obtain a woodcutters axe. Wear the bag, and nothing else. Wield the axe and nothing else. Put your difficulty to master, and rampage.

My first few times in Riverwood I literally caught myself several times when I almost killed chickens. I'm not used to games where chickens are more than ambient creatures that no one gives a shit about.

You evil, unforgivable, unpardonable bastard. I must now do this as soon as possible. Short haired, blond Nord with only block and 'foraged' one-hand weapons that must be dropped as soon as that specific combat sequence is ended. This... Will be epic.

Oh, yeah, I know how to get good unarmed damage. What I was saying is that Captain America would scavenge weapons rather than carrying them about. That's the main excuse for all the pouches on his utility belt during the War. He carries different kinds of ammunition for the different weapons he might have to pick up and use. So the idea I had was to only grab weapons I come across by chance and put those to work.

Get into enchanting, heavy armor and smithing. You want the heavy armor perk that adds points to unarmed strikes base on your armor rating. Improve your armor, wear heavy armor, disenchant gloves of the pugilist and put the enchantment on anything you can.

I could just look all this up on the wiki, but isn't the bonus from Gloves of the Pugilist a percentage-based bonus? So I'd need to have a pretty decent enchantment score already to make the most use of it?

What I've read makes PUNCHCAT sound like a powerhouse from the start, more than an end-of-the-game kind of thing. Maybe I'm just too slow at levelling enchanting.

I made a PUNCHCAT the other day. I'm working on trying to figure out the fortify alchemy/restoration/enchanting loop to make some badass gloves and rings to enhance my punching. Then, I will punch dragons to death!

When I finished everything in Skyrim this is what I did, sort of. The only thing I didn't have was the 'master criminal' achievement, so I went to a city in each hold and butchered a couple people, then ran away to the next hold.

Solitude was my last stop. I walked up into the castle area where are the soldiers are training and summoned a Dremora Lord. I used my Dragon shout to call Oodavhin (sp?) and proceeded to slaughter every person I could find in Solitude. Eventually the streets were completely silent, besides the couple NPCs that can't be killed who cowered in their corners.

I enjoyed my walk up to the Blue Palace in silence, then opened the door. Guards came pouring out of the woodwork and I set to them with fire and steel, with my Dremora Lord's war cry ringing in my ears. We laid waste to them right in front of the Jarl. They kept coming though, scrambling over their dead comrades to kill me. And thus, finally out of potions and magic, the Dragonborn fell.

RIP Prisoner, you may have saved the continent, but all those errands eventually drove you into a murderous rage which couldn't be sated. But even though you are no longer with us, your legacy will be remembered. People will speak of your deeds, large and small, good and evil; and perhaps someday another will come to follow in your footsteps when I finally decide to purchase the Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLCs.

I honestly don't have that good a story, I just wiped out everybody I could find in every city. I tried markarth first, and everything just went from there. But seriously, lvl 81 killing sprees are the best, because when there's nothing else to do, do what you do best.

Explore black reach. Every nook and cranny. The bottom of each lake and the tops of as many mushrooms as possible. That place is freaking beautiful. Become a werewolf and challenge yourself to run from one edge of skyrim to the opposite edge without transforming back to human. I.e. eat everything you find.

Become a werewolf, then stalk around isolated inns houses mills etc. howl outside. Scratch their doors, walk inside and rawr at them forcing the puny humans to flee into corners. Stalk slowly towards them rawring, then kill the child's mother in front of him, rawr again and dash off. Check in box for future werewolf hunter/PTWS Post traumatic werewolf syndrome

Don't start the actual storyline by avoiding the jarl of Whiterun. No random dragons. Travel around as a hunter/merchant.

Make up an interesting story for yourself; I am a Khajit assassin thief who is in Skyrim as a spy, sowing dissent and pretty much trying to keep the land in turmoil to prevent any sort of focus from falling on Elsewyr. My latest strategy is stalking random people out on the roads, and staging Thalmor attacks; using elven arrows, leaving the odd elven helmet or dagger on the scene, etc.

Force some RP things like eating/sleeping. Adds to the fun when I hit the inn first upon entering a town, get food, wine, and a room, then depending on my next task, sleep accordingly (personally, I always leave before dawn to still have darkness to hide my movements).

Level up illusion; fury is tons of fun...watch a bandit camp start tearing itself apart as you lob spells into groups of bandits.

Probably the riskiest, but the one I've had the most fun with...become a werewolf, and then do the hircine quest. Check UESP, but there's a way you can end up with both the regular AND cursed ring of hircine. Wear the cursed one, and then deal with the fact that at any given time you could randomly turn into a werewolf. I play like that in my spellsword character (I treat it as him having 'tainted blood'), and it makes sometimes needing to escape towns or camps pretty interesting. I always try and just sprint like mad into the wilderness when it hits me, attacking animals/hunters, and basically just running wild until it wears off.